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Sarah Ward

Edinburgh University students sleeping in common room bunk beds due to housing crisis

Final year students at the University of Edinburgh are staying in bunk beds in a converted common room in uni halls of residence due to the city's housing crisis.

Fourth year students said the only thing which made the situation tolerable was sharing the experience, and begrudged being asked about their A-Level results by overexcited freshers wanting to go for hikes up Arthur's Seat.

Several fourth-year students who are sleeping in bunk beds on the ground floor of multiple different accommodation blocks in Pollock Halls, after approaching the university for help when they were unable to find private accommodation, reports the Tab.

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